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Comment Re:Learning your IDE is more effective ... (Score 1) 191

I was a hunt-and-peck typer for many years, then I learned how to type because I needed to learn it for school; However, I still needed to see the keyboard.
Then, after many years of using a keyboard for my job, I learned how to touch type because it's a tool, not a "somewhat useful thing" when it comes to IT.
If you can't touch type as a professional IT professional, quit your job and let the people who actually know how to use their tools take over.

Touch typing is synonymous with using a hammer in construction. If you can't use a hammer correctly, how are you a tradesman?

Comment Re:Learning your IDE is more effective ... (Score 2, Insightful) 191

When I watch people hit the arrow keys a hundred times when they could use a quicker method, I just want to grab the keyboard and demote them to tier 1 phone support.
Then you get to Vi(m) and want to tell them "I think your skills will be better used at Wal-Mart as the door greeter".

Comment Re:I disagree (Score 0) 128

Why the hell should someone write an essay for why they want to go to college? It's 2025, make it a video and it can be 5x faster.

I hated writing essays back when I was younger. I wrote a terrible essay for 3 scholarships to community college and got one of them. I found out it was because I was the only applicant.

I'm not a terrible writer, I just don't know why I need to dignify to someone else why I should have free money over another person that could potentially afford it without a scholarship.

Comment Re:Every hedge fund (Score 1) 123

All hedge funds and large financial institutions should be sued by all 'non-rich' shareholders. There are literal 'dark pools' that are used to make their intended trades hidden until they are executed and reported. This gives large institutions privy access to upcoming trades that normal investors are not aware of.

Submission + - Congress Lets Broadband Funding Run Out, Ending $30 Low-Income Discounts (arstechnica.com)

An anonymous reader writes: The Federal Communications Commission chair today made a final plea to Congress, asking for money to continue a broadband-affordability program that gave out its last round of $30 discounts to people with low incomes in April. The Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) has lowered monthly Internet bills for people who qualify for benefits, but Congress allowed funding to run out. People may receive up to $14 in May if their ISP opted into offering a partial discount during the program's final month. After that there will be no financial help for the 23 million households enrolled in the program.

"Additional funding from Congress is the only near-term solution for keeping the ACP going," FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel wrote in a letter to members of Congress today. "If additional funding is not promptly appropriated, the one in six households nationwide that rely on this program will face rising bills and increasing disconnection. In fact, according to our survey of ACP beneficiaries, 77 percent of participating households report that losing this benefit would disrupt their service by making them change their plan or lead to them dropping Internet service entirely." The ACP started with $14.2 billion allocated by Congress in late 2021. The $30 monthly ACP benefit replaced the previous $50 monthly subsidy from the Emergency Broadband Benefit Program.

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